United States v. Spring’s Empirical Analysis
305 F.3d 276 · 2002
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently January 2024 · most notably United States v. Scott (2006), United States v. England (2007)
11 federal appellate · 1 district ·
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 115 · 18 U.S.C. § 871 (Presidential Threat Protection Act of 2000) · 18 U.S.C. § 875 · 18 U.S.C. § 876 · 18 U.S.C. § 879
Relies on Burns v. United States · Watts v. United States · United States of America v. Marion Promise · United States v. Perkins · United States v. Maxton
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“By the time the parties received notice that an upward departure was under consideration, the court had already made a final ruling on the issue. The court did not solicit arguments from counsel before announcing the ruling. Thus, the sole option left to [the defendant] was to request reconsideration of a decision that had already been announced and incorporated into a judgment. This is not equivalent to proper adversarial process before a decision is reached; on the contrary, once a sentence is announced, both the specific constrictions of Rule 35(c) and the general inertia of the decision making process impose substantial burdens on a party seeking to modify a sentence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.